The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-03
KITCHEN scRuRRINe.
Soft, Absorbent Rags the Best Material fol-
This Important Work.

/ Soft, Absorbent Rags the Best Material for
This Important Work.
Old flannel of all kinds should be
kept for scrubbing and cleaning paint
undervests, drawers, skirts, all come
in for it. In England, where scrubbing
is still the glory of the poorer people,
cottagers vying with each other on the
color of their boards, there is coarse
gray flannel made, called ''house fam
nell" expressly for the purpose. Next
to flannel is old coarse soft linen, old
| kitchen towels, crash, etc. So neces-
sary to good cleaning is soft absorbent
material, that | would almost rather
my maids destroy articles of far more
value than the scrub cloths, because
the supply is so limited, especially if
we give away our disused undercloth-
ing. For this reason keep the supply
under your own care, see that after
each using the cloth is dried and not
thrown away, until it is really used as
long as possible. Many girls will be
! conscientious about towels and busters,
because they have money value. but
cleaning cloths, being only rags, they
/ will consider may be thrown aside any
time and fresh ones taken. In addition
to the soft wet cloth, dry rubber
(best made of old Russian crash that
has done service for round or dish
towel) should be kept; n scrubbing
brush of hard bristles is best, the soft
excelsior brushes are Of little use except
for coarse paint, and brushes made of
broom straw, although not entirely
satisfactory, are about the best one can
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had or are too expensive. Tables that
have been neglected may be bleached
by spreading on them over night a
layer of wood ashes, made into a NOR
tar-like paste with water; the next day
brush it off and scrub. The same paste
may be laid on floors when spotted with
| grease. In cleaning floors never wet
too large a space at once. If beyond
the comfortable range Of the arm, there
/ is almost certain to be dark
! circle when dry, showing where you
! leave off each piece, because, being
out of easy reach, you have no power
/ to scrub we'll or wipe dry. Always in
using the drying cloth, rub it well be-
/ yond the space you are now cleaning
/ over, to the one last done. The use of
q little washing soda or borax in the
/ water is excellent for boards, and if
they have been neglected, a small
4 lump of lime in the water greatly
/ helps to make them white. After
/ tables are scrubbed attend to the sink,
4 put a lump of washing soda as large as
/ an egg at least over the sink hole, and
4 pour kettle of boiling water over
every part of it, using your sink brush
/ to send it into all greasy parts. Wash,
/ the last thing before the floor, all fin
! ger marks from the paint; also the
1 chairs if painted; the backs of them if
/ caned; the top of the flour barrel and
/ the windows. Be especially careful to
/ clean kitchen window sills; 50 many
1 things are put on them, they are more
| apt to be soiled than any others. Need
! less to say that floors must always be
swept before they are washed. To
/ clean oil cloth, do not scrub it unless
/ it has been badly cleaned many times.
when, with the fine corrugated surface
now usual, the dirt, or rather the dirty
water allowed to remain in it will have
! grimmed it so that you will need to
use soft brush and scrub the way of
the lines; but usually, warm water,
one wet and dry cloth are all that are
needed. Oil cloth and paint need the
wiping with a coarse dry cloth as much
as boards. and will well repay the
extra trouble. Skim milk used in
place of water to clean oil cloth gives
il brightness and luster. Painted floors
must be treated just as oil cloth is
have one thing more to say about the
kitchen sink. If YOU put in a lump of
soda weighing half a pound or more
every day or two, you will have no
trouble with the drain pipe becoming
clogged with grease. So large piece
viii d ssolve very slowly. but all the
water that goes down viii help to
cleanse instead of soil the pipe. When
ever you have kettle Of boiling water
that YOU do not need st once. pour il
into the sink Catherine Otoeq. ne Good
Housekeeping.